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Call for Papers – Special Issue 9.2: 'Costume Pedagogies'
Studies in Costume and Performance invites submissions for Issue 9.2 (to be published in December 2024) on the theme of ‘Costume Pedagogies’.
Costume educators across the globe are currently wrestling with a range of complex challenges as they prepare the next generation of costume professionals with relevant knowledge, skills and experiences to enter the industry. Responding to rapid climate change, as well as social and political inequalities are pressing concerns, as is incorporating technological developments and innovative modes of teaching and learning.
Professional costume practice, relying as it does on a broad range of tactile, embodied and collaborative skills and knowledges, is time and labour intensive. Teaching and learning these practices is therefore demanding for both students and educators. This issue of Studies in Costume and Performance will bring together current international perspectives on costume pedagogy.
Seeking a variety of content, including:
- Articles that introduce, problematize or reframe an issue, trend or paradigm in teaching costume history, costume practice and/or theory
- Case studies on innovative teaching practices
- In conversation pieces
- Education oriented research reports
Potential topics include:
● The workroom as a gendered learning space
● Emerging technologies and the future of costume pedagogy
● Recovering and rethinking tools, techniques and materials
● Student driven pedagogical approaches
● Changing teaching priorities in response to changing student profiles
● Ensuring inclusivity and equity in costume making and design education
● Reconsidering costume related language and terminology
● Embedding ecological sustainability into costume pedagogy
● Points of resistance and stumbling blocks in making pedagogical change in costume
● Connections between pedagogical and professional communities of costume
● Explore a learning and teaching area not detailed above
In particular, they are interested in case studies which examine any of the above topics, or:
● Contribute examples of how one or more issues of costume pedagogy play out in the classroom, studio, rehearsal and production context.
● Introduce applications in the classroom for new, found or reconsidered resources for teaching costume, such as textbooks, online resources and embodied knowledge.
Please submit your contribution (full text) by 21 January 2024 through the following link:
https://www.intellectbooks.com/submit/studies-in-costume-performance
The journal is double-blind peer-reviewed in order to maintain the highest standards of scholarly integrity.
Articles should be between 4000–6000 words including notes and references, case studies (1000 -2000 words), research reports (2500–4000 words), ‘in-conversations’ with artists, designers or educators (1500–2500 words), and reviews of education oriented events and new publications (750 - 1500 words).
For further information, please read the Notes for Contributors:
https://www.intellectbooks.com/asset/1610/1/NfC_SCP.pdf
Authors are expected to consult the Information for Journal Contributors and use the latest Intellect Style Guide.
This special issue is edited by Suzanne Osmond and Madeline Taylor.
For questions and enquiries, please email: suzanne.osmond@nida.edu.au or madeline.taylor@qut.edu.au
Studies in Costume and Performance brings together scholars and critically engaged practitioners and designers working in the fields of scenography, costume, performance, curation and fashion to facilitate critical discourse on costume and its relationship with performance.